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Document 32012D0804(01)

Council Decision of 24 July 2012 adopting the Council position on the draft budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013

OJ C 234, 4.8.2012, p. 4–4 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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4.8.2012   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 234/4


COUNCIL DECISION

of 24 July 2012

adopting the Council position on the draft budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013

2012/C 234/06

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 314(3) thereof, in conjunction with the Treaty establishing the European Atomic and Energy Community and in particular Article 106a thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

On 25 May 2012, the Commission submitted a proposal containing the draft budget for the financial year 2013 (1).

(2)

The Council examined the Commission proposal with a view to defining a position consistent, on the revenue side, with Council Decision 2007/436/EC, Euratom of 7 June 2007 on the system of the European Communities' own resources (2), and on the expenditure side, with Part I of Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (3), which, in the absence of any multiannual financial framework established pursuant to Article 312 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, constitutes the currently applicable instrument of budgetary discipline,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

The Council's position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 was adopted by the Council on 24 July 2012.

The full text can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the Council's website: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2012.

For the Council

The President

A. D. MAVROYIANNIS


(1)  COM(2012) 300.

(2)  OJ L 163, 23.6.2007, p. 17.

(3)  OJ L 347, 24.12.2009, p. 26.


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